Ecological Citizen(s) Network+ announces second funding round for innovative, UK-based projects focusing on The Natural World

For this funding round, The Natural World is considered to include the essential qualities that make up life as well as the physical spaces, places, conditions and interactions between everything on our interconnected planet: plants and animals; soil, water and air; weather and shelter; movement, growth, reproduction. Nature is physical, contextual and conscious and not just tied to the countryside, but in our waterways, rooftops and school playgrounds as well as embedded in our cultures and history.

Ecological Citizen(s) Network+ is a ‘project to make projects’. Within the project’s funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), there is a budget to fund and support innovative, short-term projects that will contribute to the concept and exploration of Ecological Citizenship and catalyse positive climate action towards a sustainable digital society through appropriate technologies.

Applications are invited to this funding call for projects that go beyond the usual, and celebrate unexplored areas within this year’s call theme of The Natural World.

Experimentation is encouraged, alongside projects, ideas, interventions or initiatives that proactively seek to work closely with communities, ecosystems and/or landscapes. Applications should aim to positively impact the environment and both human and non-human citizens.

Please visit the funding page on the Ecological Citizen(s) Network+ website for more information, and some suggested focus areas that are particularly of interest in this year.

In order to apply to the Ecological Citizen(s) funding, your project must be led by a principal investigator (PI) who is an academic member of staff at an EPSRC eligible, UK-based institution. This includes most UK universities and various other research centres or establishments.

The window for applications to be submitted will be open between 1 November 2024 and 23:59 on 31 January 2025, and application Q&A drop-in sessions will run fortnightly on Fridays from 8 November 2023 between 12:30 and 13:30. Contact the Ecological Citizens team to register for these sessions.